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Occhicone was convicted of double murder in 1987 for killing his former girlfriend’s parents, Raymond & Martha Artzner.
The scheduling of 2 executions – both via lethal injection – in one day comes as #Florida has accelerated its pace of executions, even as other states have abolished or paused the practice.
“I’m not shocked anymore by the number of death warrants that are being signed, but it struck me as a kind of rupture to the system that we would execute 2 people within 6 hours from one another,” said Father Dustin Feddon, a Catholic priest who has been visiting prisoners on #Florida’s death row for more than a decade.
Feddon currently ministers to James Duckett, who is scheduled to be executed at noon on Tuesday. Duckett has spent more than three decades on death row after being convicted of murdering 11-year-old Teresa McAbee in 1987.
Hours after Duckett’s death, the state plans to execute Dominick Occhicone, an 80-year-old man who would be the second octogenarian ever executed in the US death penalty’s modern era, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC).
Occhicone was convicted of double murder in 1987 for killing his former girlfriend’s parents, Raymond & Martha Artzner.
The scheduling of 2 executions – both via lethal injection – in one day comes as #Florida has accelerated its pace of executions, even as other states have abolished or paused the practice.
Under the admin of #Republican Gov #RonDeSantis, #Florida executed 19 death row inmates in 2025 – a record high, & more than double the state’s previous record in modern history, according to DPIC. It has already put 10 prisoners to death this year.
“This administration is the most active #DeathPenalty administration we’ve ever seen,” Maria DeLiberato, senior counsel at the ACLU’s #CapitalPunishment Project, told CNN.
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